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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Cobra electric supercharger. Click to enlarge. At the 17 th Supercharging conference this week in Dresden, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will launch what it says is the first water-cooled electric supercharger developed for “quasi-continuous” boosting of commercial diesel engines, including those developed for off highway applications. The fully integrated electric supercharger includes all control and power electronics.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

It’s a well-known fact that President Obama is a fan of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid. In fact, Obama has pledged to buy his own Chevrolet Volt when he leaves office, whenever that takes place. As Commander in Chief however, Obama will be pleased to see that the U.S. military isn’t waiting for him to leave office before it switches.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Can a motor drive a 33' RV? Is there a motor designed to drive each wheel instead of driving the transmission? Is it stupid to consider an electric RV?

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Ford Motors is coming out with a range of "electrified" cars this year, ones that have either hybrid, or plug-in hybrid or all electric drive trains. The cars have high fuel efficiency, but they also reduce.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Mitsubishi Materials and Honda Motor are partnering on a new business to recover rare-earth magnets from the electric motors in hybrid cars. Mitsubishi Materials, which already operates five recycling centers to recover materials from consumer electronics, including rare-earth magnets, will develop equipment for extracting drive motors and then removing the magnets.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

There’s nothing better than a scientific test to prove or disprove a theory. So when Nissan executive vice president Andy Palmer described the recent reports of battery capacity loss in its Leaf electric car as nothing more than a ‘faulty battery level display’ earlier this month, a group of Leaf owners in Phoenix, Arizona.

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

On Monday, Reuters published an article claiming that each Chevy Volt cost GM $89,000 to manufacture, meaning that GM was eating $49k per Volt sold. That article cited a report prepared for Reuters by an "analyst,&quot.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Antalya Metropolitan Municipality in Turkey and Renault signed an agreement to deploy a program to prepare a Zero Emissions Partnership. This agreement aims to achieve a partnership for the promotion and deployment of the environmental friendly electric vehicles in Antalya. This partnership program will focus on the establishment in the territory of the prefecture of Antalya of a substructure of charging points for electric vehicles manufactured in Bursa Oyak Renault Automobile Plants since the

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

It's been a long time coming, but the 2012 Coda Sedan is now on sale at a handful of dealers in California. Six months after the very first Coda compact electric cars were delivered to buyers, the compact is gearing up a major publicity push to sell the electric sedan--which we've now driven. Our bottom line is that the Coda Sedan is a practical.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Who is the manufacturer of the Pacer 6 volt electric golf cart battery?

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National Green Transportation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Ford Motors is coming out with a range of "electrified" cars this year, ones that have either hybrid, or plug-in hybrid or all electric drive trains. The cars have high fuel efficiency, but they also reduce.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has commissioned its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico ( earlier post ), where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production using a fraction of the land and capital investment required for algae-derived or agricultural biofuels. Joule has developed a highly modular system using highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 directly to liquid hydrocarbons and ethanol ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you drive an electric or plug-in car and drive to work every day in it, you’ve probably given the topic of workplace charging stations some thought. Convincing your boss to shell out company cash for a charging station might not be that easy, but now charging station provider ChargePoint wants to help you sweeten the deal through its new.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

What is cycle life of Exide 8 volt golf car batteries? Hi, John!

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

On Monday, Reuters published an article claiming that each Chevy Volt cost GM $89,000 to manufacture, meaning that GM was eating $49k per Volt sold. That article cited a report prepared for Reuters by an "analyst,&quot.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Worldwide light-duty vehicle production. Source: Worldwatch. Click to enlarge. Production of light-duty passenger vehicles (cars and light trucks) rose from 74.4 million in 2010 to 76.8 million in 2011, and 2012 may bring an all-time high of 80 million or more vehicles, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online service.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Compared to its electric contemporaries, Chevrolet's range-extended Volt is currently proving the most popular plug-in, posting its best-ever sales figures during August. It's out-punching the Leaf consistently, and other electric cars aren't even getting a look-in. It's even outselling Toyota's Plug-In Prius. But overall, Chevy is still a long.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Small carmaker smart is set to show an exciting new concept at the Paris Motor Show this month. Called forstars, this two seat coupe model takes its name from the glass roof above the passengers which should give the vehicle’s occupants a clear view of the starry sky above (unless of course, you’re affected by [.].

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The environmental law centers at UCLA and UC Berkeley Schools of Law today released a new policy paper on industry actions and federal, state, and local policies needed to ensure that California catalyzes mass adoption of electric vehicles by 2025, with the goal of building a long-term market in the US. At stake, the paper argues, is the future of the electric vehicle market.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Laboratory and in-use fuel economy comparison. Source: NREL. Click to enlarge. A performance evaluation of Class 8 hybrid electric tractor trailers (Kenworth T370 hybrid tractors) compared with similar conventional vehicles (Freightliner M2106 standard diesel tractors) by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) found that hybrid tractors demonstrated 13.7% higher fuel economy than the conventional tractors, resulting in a 12% reduction in fuel costs for

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Terrabon, a company commercializing a waste-to-biogasoline technology developed at Texas A&M, ( earlier post ), has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7 of the Federal bankruptcy laws. Under Chapter 7 proceedings, the company’s operations cease and a trustee will be tasked with liquidating the company’s assets for the benefit of creditors.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

MAN Diesel & Turbo introduced the L35/44DF engine, the latest addition to its four-stroke portfolio. The new marine engine offers dual diesel fuel-gas operation and can also be introduced as a retrofit to engines already in service. The first prototype entered its test phase at the beginning of the second quarter 2012 at MAN Diesel & Turbo’s Augsburg facility.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is requesting public comment on its recently published EV Everywhere Initial Framing Document. ( Earlier post.) Public comments on this proposed framing document must be received on or before 29 October 2012. The EV Everywhere Grand Challenge—announced by President Obama in March—is a DOE “Clean Energy Grand Challenge” with the goal of enabling US companies to be the first in the world to produce plug-

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The MEC uses electricity to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. The bacterium uses the hydrogen as an energy source to take in carbon dioxide and convert it to a biofuel, which it then emits. Source: Berkeley Lab. Click to enlarge. A Berkeley Lab team led by Steven Singer and funded by ARPA-E is developing a method to blend hydrogen-producing electrocatalytic materials with genetically modified Ralstonia eutropha , a common soil bacterium, to produce hydrocarbons in a reactor—requiring o

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The HIT BusinessResearch Group intends to convert sewage sludge to hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles and stationary fuel cells. Click to enlarge. The Hydrogen Innovation Town (HIT) Business Research Group in Japan—including Japan Blue Energy Co., Ltd. (JBEC); Daiwa Lease Co., Ltd.; Toyota Tsusho Corporation; and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.—has begun verification tests using sewage sludge to generate bio-hydrogen at JBEC’s Blue Tower new technology plant located at its development center in

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

LS9, a synthetic biology company producing renewable fuels and chemicals directly by microbes ( earlier post ), announced the successful start-up of its Florida operations with an initial production run of fatty alcohols. LS9 completed the retrofit of the demonstration facility in Okeechobee, Fla. in May of this year. ( Earlier post.). Initially, the Florida facility will be used to enhance LS9’s production capability and generate large commercial samples for testing and product qualification by

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Shipping-induced global temperature change in 2050 using different parameterizations of Indirect Aerosol Effect (IAE). Credit: ACS, Lund et al. Click to enlarge. A recent study by an international team calculated that shipping causes a net cooling of climate across all parametrizations of the indirect aerosol effect (IAE) and scenarios throughout the period 1900?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is contributing about €19 million (US$24 million) to a new €36-million ($US46 million), 3-year, public-private research project to improve further the safety of lithium-ion batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles. Private sector partners are putting in around €17 million (US$22 million).

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Euro VI-compliant DTI 11. Click to enlarge. Renault Trucks will present its Euro VI compliant engines at the IAA show in Hanover. These will equip its trucks when the new standard becomes compulsory in January 2014 (January 2013 for new homologations). To comply with the new regulation, the manufacturer is using different technologies, choosing the most appropriate and efficient in regards to the engine’s size and future application.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory has developed a new, free online tool allowing users to customize and analyze the environmental impact of various fuels before they are used to create power. The Excel-based Upstream Dashboard provides “upstream” data for lifecycle analysis of coal, natural gas, crude oil, uranium, and biomass, as well as gasoline, ethanol, jet fuel, and diesel derived from either petroleum or coal-gasification.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Overview of the ReadiJet process. Click to enlarge. Applied Research Associates (ARA) and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) are partnering with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and Agrisoma Biosciences Inc. to evaluate CLG and ARA’s 100% drop-in ReadiJet Fuel derived from Agrisoma Resonance feedstock.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

A recent survey by market research firm Penn Schoen Berlandalso, commissioned by Ford Motor Company, found many US drivers are slowing down, coasting more to stops, and in some cases even slipstreaming behind larger vehicles to save gasoline. Among the results of the survey: Saving money and helping the environment are top drivers of energy-efficient purchases.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Nissan TeRRA SUV concept. Click to enlarge. Nissan will unveil the Nissan TeRRA SUV fuel cell electric vehicle concept at the 2012 Paris Motor Show on 27 September. TeRRA, with a 3-motor, 4x4 powertrain, builds on Nissan’s success with what it calls “urban-relevant” SUVs and crossovers such as the Murano and Qashqai. Powering the front wheels is the electric propulsion system currently featured in the battery-electric Nissan LEAF.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Siemens is joining the Clean Energy Partnership. (CE P) hydrogen mobility demonstration project in Germany. The company will provide hydrogen fueling stations with an electrolysis system based on PEM (proton exchange membrane) technology. Siemens will provide a PEM electrolyzer with a nominal capacity of 0.1 MW power rating and peak capacity of up to 300 kW for one. of the hydrogen stations to be built as part of the German Federal Government’s 50 Filling Stations program.

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